Redcliffe Branch Newsletter August 2013 - Ulysses...

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Redcliffe Branch Newsletter

Ride Calendar 8

Global Travellers 12

Yowie Festival 18

Red Ride For Life 19

Quartermaster Ramblings 20

Redcliffe Odyssey 31

Odyssey Registration 32

Inside this issue:

August 2013

Cartwheel Poker Run

Page 23

Coming

Events

Page 9

Ulysses Club Inc. Redcliffe Branch Newsletter August 2013

DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily represent the views of the editor, or committee of the Redcliffe branch of the

Ulysses Club. The Editor and Committee have the right to refuse any piece for publication if they feel it may breach any advertising laws or may offend

any person/persons. It will be assumed that any photo submitted for the Newsletter has the permission of the subjects. The Committee has decided that

for all private submissions, a normal editing process should apply. This means that the resulting article will be screened for grammar, punctuation, spell-

ing and any other amendments. This will not change the authors understanding or intent.

All submissions must be forwarded to the Editor by the first Monday of the month…

unless deemed as urgent.

The Redcliffe Branch of The Ulysses Club Inc. meets at The Scarbor-

ough Bowls Club, Sunnyside Road, near corner of Scarborough Road,

Scarborough.

Social Meetings are held every Friday night from 6.00 pm.

General Meetings are held on the second Friday night of the month at

7.30 pm.

The Editor will endeavour to accommodate your requests.

All advertisements will be in colour and will also be published on our website.

Classified advertisements are free for all members.

Branch Contacts

President

Russell Wheeler

Mob:0488 005 430

Secretary

Keren Wheeler

Mob:0408 292 135

Treasurer

Di Parker

Mob:0417 005 891

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Vice President &

Special Events

Herb Heeschen

Mob:0420 335 556

Ride

Coordinator

Ian Jansen

Mob:0408 730 273

Regalia

Liz Lawler

Mob:0418 258 038

Webmaster

Michelle Gall

Mob:0400 611 892

Editor

Trish Wells

Welfare Officer

Jason Bigalla

Mob:0419 741 120

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Branch Postal Address

Ulysses Redcliffe Branch

P O Box 3134

Clontarf Mail Centre

QLD 4019

Costs for Advertising:

Full Page-$1000 per year

Half Page-$500 per year

Quarter Page-$250 per year

Business Cards-$100 per year

Ride Committee

Darryl Wells

Mob:0421 380 351

Committee Member

Peter Keane

Mob:0438 266 179

Committee Member

Glen Wintle

Committee Member

Brett Lawler

Mob: 0427 046 570

Website : http://redcliffe.ulyssesclub.org/


Here we go again another year is accelerating by. Our Christmas in July was a fantastic night with all those attending having a great time.

Lyn, Mick & Keren put in a huge effort once again organising our Einbunpin Festival. We had a small atten-dance from our branch members, all of whom had a great day.

The Memorial Day planning is in place with Ray, Keren and Foggy (Lockyer) putting in a lot of hours to have the event ready.

Don’t forget about our Odyssey we will be needing donations for our U-bay and Raffle, please see Herb & Ray if you can assist.

So wherever you may be, safe riding.

Cheers,

Russell


ULYSSES CLUB INC. – REDCLIFFE BRANCH

BRANCH MEETING FRIDAY 12th JULY 2013

SCARBOROUGH BOWLS CLUB

MEETING OPENED: 7:55pm

APOLOGIES Keren, Lyn, Julie, Tina, Glen

PRESENT: All members as per attendance book.

MINUTES: All members should have read previous minutes as they have been circulated via email and newsletter.

BUSINESS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS MINUTES:

- Russell said that Raizo has again got the prize for the Einbunpin Raffle.

- Russell also asked that we have some help for Einbunpin Sausage Sizzle. Even if you can only give a couple of hours as it all helps

SECRETARY’S REPORT

Correspondence In:

Brazil on Bikes – next motorcycle adventure tour April 2014

Mike Callow ([email protected]) Patriots Western Ranges – Gunna Rally - 19 & 20 Oct 13 at Cooyar. Sunshine Coast - Invite to Christmas in July, Sat. 27th

Warwick - invitation to Christmas in July, 20-21

Raizo - Montville Mountain Inn Resort – donation of Prize for Einbunpin

David & Sandra (Pozzie & Tigger) 18th July will be inside the Caboolture Park shopping centre King Street Caboolture accepting donations to The Project Kid Safe Foundation drop in to help make it a successfully day for the foundation.

In Banking hour's on 22-26th July at Bendigo Bank at the corner of Gympie Rd & Bells Pocket Rd Strath-pine. On Friday 26th having a BBQ/Sausages sizzle outside Bank with all profit's going to the foundation. Please drop in to help make it a successfully week for the foundation.

Simon Morrow - conducting preliminary research into the idea of taking residents from Enoggera Respite Centre on a ride.

Brisbane Branch - Freemasons Nursing Home, Sandgate BBQ morning tea on the14th July. - 10.00am Adam and Therese won’t be here for a little while as Adams dad is very ill in Penrith.

Stainless now living on the Gold Coast and has sold his bike.

Ken Lowis (Redlands) - Brisbane Spring Motorcycle Show and Shine September 7th 10am- 2pm

motoDNA's ADVANCED ROAD RIDER TRAINING @ LAKESIDE - Advanced road rider training course are 27th July and 23rd August BOOK NOW to qualify for the Fifty dollars early booking discount ($345) Ric "Roo” Mingramm President – Brisbane Sub Section Naval Association of Australia. If you are or were a Motorcyclist and want to be a member of the Naval Association and Navy Riders, drop us a line on: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

http://motodna.createsend5.com/t/j-l-trjuktt-irhutydrj-w/

mailto:[email protected]


Correspondence Out:

Simon Morrows email forwarded to Northern Gateway and Brisbane Branches

RIDE COORDINATOR’S REPORT:

Ian would like to thank those that went to the Kilcoy ride

This week ends ride (14.07.13) is to Boonah for ride A and then onto Queen Mary Falls (Ride B) for 8am meet 8:30 leave.

Memorial Day week end camping at Somerset Dam – for those that can, Ian would like to know numbers. Camping for the Friday and Saturday then ride down to the gardens

Super Bike in February – don’t forget to take your seniors card for ½ price entry

EDITOR’S REPORT:

As usual just a reminder for more stories

SPECIAL EVENTS COORDINATOR’S REPORT

Herb reminded us about Xmas in July next Saturday 20.07.13. Herb said that numbers are down

SOCIAL COORDINATOR’S REPORT:

Einbunpin - We have booked a 3rd space so that we can have some bikes on display. We will have some membership forms and information sheet of what the Ulysses is all about. Raffles tickets are now available

WELFARE OFFICER

Gary is out of hospital. Ziggy is also home

GENERAL BUSINESS

Ray has approach the Water board regarding the Memorial Gardens and trying to set up a meeting. When the weather improves he will be having a work day up there

John from Tradition Funerals gave a talk on how his company was surprised and delighted by the turn out of Ulysses members at Drums’ funeral. His company has asked him to be Ulysses funeral director

MEETING CLOSED 8:30pm


Treasures Report July 2013

Expenditure Amount Income Amount

Raffles $269.98 Raffles $336.15

Regalia $266.20 Regalia $250.00

Function/ Xmas July

Meals, Music, Nibbles $1,416.04

Function /Xmas July $1,025.00

Membership $2,540.00 Membership $240.00

Einbunpin $928.52 Einbunpin $2,405.70

Einbunpin Raffle $150.00

Einbunpin Raffle $520.00

Printing/ Stationery $313.50 Advertising $450.00

ATO $39.00 Donations

from Ein-bunkin go to RFD $103.15

Donation Interest $0.53

Total Expen-diture $5,923.24

Total In-come $5,330.53

Balance as per Bank Statement on 02.07.2013 01.08.2013 $7,011.27


If you have any ideas or stories for the newsletter please email me.

By the look of the events calendar it is going to be busy the next few months.

P.S. For those that go to Zorba’s on Friday nights could you please quiet the noise down when you leave

the premises as there have been complaints to Deb of Zorba’s.

Til next month

Trish


This is a guide only updates are available on the Ulysses site.

For further information, please contact the Ride Coordinator....Ian Janson Mob: 0408 730 273

Please note - The depart time is always 30 minutes after the meet time.

Ride Levels 1 = short & easy for all. 2 = medium dist. for all levels. 3 = medium dist. with some chal-

lenging sections. 4 = medium dist. experienced riders only. 5 = long distance for all levels.

Glasshouse Mountains

Branch - Valley Rally

(Kilcoy Showgrounds)

See Flyer - Page 11

Kenilworth Cheese Factory

Meet: BP North

Ride Level: 3

16/8/13

to

18/8/13

18/8/13

If anyone is interested in doing mid week rides

please call Barry (0409 269 220) to discuss and

organise.

Midweek

Rides

Cartwheel Ride

Aratula

Combined Branches

Meet: Carseldine

Time: 7.00 am for 7.30 am leave

See Flyer - Page 23

25/8/13

11/8/13 Russell’s Ride Wivenhoe Dam

Meet : BP North

Ride Level: 3


Mt Tamborine (Ride A)

Meet: Carseldine

Ride Level:2

Murwillumbah Royal Hotel (Ride B)

Ride Distance:

Ride Level:3

Memorial Day Weekend

Somerset Dam

16 - 18 August

25 August

2 - 6 September

7 September

8 September

14 September

11 - 12 October

18 - 20 October

20 October

25 - 27 October

15 - 17 November

30 November

7 December

7 December

8 December

Valley Rally (Kilcoy)

Combined Branches Cartwheel Ride (Aratula)

Southern Cross Annual 5 Day Poker Run

Redlands Show and Shine

National Memorial Ride (Somerset Dam)

Mt Lindsay Poker Run

Bikes Through The Bar (Meandarra)

Australian Moto GP (Phillip Island)

Kilcoy Classics On Wheels

Redcliffe Odyssey (Somerset Dam)

Imbil Rally

Christmas Party

Girraween

Scarborough Xmas Lights

Ipswich Toy Run

1/9/13

7/9/13

- 8/9/13

8/9/13 Ulysses Memorial Day

Somerset Dam


4 - Trish Wells 8 - Beryl Bowles - Alan Collis 15 - Michael Herbert - Terry Lynham (TJ) 18 - Steve Curan (Fang) 21 - Jay Deb 22 - Barry Cooper - Charlie Simpson 23 - Cheryl Abbott 24 - Jenny Melville 25 - Jule Janson (Jules) 30 - Glen Wintle (Minjin)


Our self organized trip finally got under way when we fronted up at the International Airport on Tues-day morning, May 14

th. The first leg of the journey

was to Guangzhou, South China where we should have had a 7.5 hour stop-over.

The flight to Paris was running late and the clock had already ticked over to the 15

th of May before we

boarded it. This was the start of Lyn's Birthday, which would last for 31 hours starting in China and crossing Kazakstan, Russia, Finland, Germany and finally into France.

On Sunday morning we were up early headed into the city and caught the high speed train to Le Mans for the Moto Gp. It took just under an hour to com-plete the 200 odd k's.

While waiting for the tram to the track we came across people from dozens of nationalities including Aussies, and lucky for us one Victorian couple had done the trip the day before and were able to show us the short cuts to the entrances. We had a good day at the races and managed to escape any really wet weather.

Entry into Paris was pretty low key and apart from queuing to have our passports stamped we breezed through and were soon on the train heading for our Hotel.

We spent the next few days notching up the K's on the metro, trams, boats and buses doing all the sight-seeing. It's a very bustling City.

Global Travellers

Part 1


On Monday morning we were again up early and this time headed into the city's International Station and onto the Euro-Star train to London. In London we picked up a hire car and proceeded on our tour of Britain and Ireland.

We had decided to go the Bed & Breakfast route and this worked out well.

Our first stay was a working farm in the West Coun-try and although it was initially hard to find turned out to be very comfortable. Our host here supplied us with a Farm Stay directory which served us well for the stays in the UK.

Ross, Lynette and Lyn are standing on the Clapper Bridge, Dartmoor.

This bridge dates from the 13th century

We spent a couple of days in South Wales before moving by ferry to Ireland. Unfortunately we had picked a very windy day for this crossing so the trip was pretty rough.

Ireland is very picturesque with a very good network of major roads, although these highways are wide with good surfaces and a speed limit of 120 kmh, they are open to all comers, imagine the fright you receive when travelling at 120 ks and coming across a huge tractor ambling along at about 40 ks!!. It was enough to give us Grey hair!.

While roaming around Cork we came across the usual indigenous person entertaining the public with his Didgery Doo, albeit a modern version of the Aus-tralian model.

We visited all the well known places, Tipperary, Wa-terford, Dublin before moving on to Northern Ireland. We were a bit surprised at the lack of pubs on the outskirts of Belfast. After a short stay in the outskirts of Belfast it was back on a ferry to Scotland and Ed-inburgh.


Edinburgh, as with most European cities, is steeped in history a lot of which we were able to see by us-ing the "Hop On Hop Off" open top buses. These buses do circuits of the Cities, have audio commen-tary and allow you to get on and off as many times as you wish in a 24 hour period, it is a excellent way to get your bearings in an unknown place. As with most places we've been to, it would have been great to have stayed longer but time waits for no man so after two nights we headed south to the Lake Dis-trict.

Another Farm Stay in Cumbria allowed us to explore the scenic area's of the Lake District in the North West of England. We had a trip on Coniston Waters, the lake where Donald Campbell broke the Water Speed Record, and lost his life in January 1967.

We saw a bunch of real people out for a ride, includ-ing a Trike. We also saw loads of Gypsies that were congregating in the area we were staying. They had travelled great distances as there was a horse sale on the following weekend. They are not much liked as they set up camps where-ever they can, at the side of the road, in Pub car parks etc.

From here we travelled south to our final Farm Stay north of London in Bedfordshire.


This stay enabled us to visit Cambridge, Norwich and Ipswich (as below) although there was some question as to whether Lynette new where we were?.

Our final few days were spent in London and once again we made full use of the trains, tubes, buses and river ferries to see as much as we could cram in. We had picked a very central area near St Pancras Sta-tion for our last stay and this allowed us to walk to a lot of places. Our last meal was at the local about 200 mts down the road.

Early Wednesday morning (June 5th) we walked the 150 mts to St Pancras station and prepared for the trip

back to Paris. While in Britain we had driven some 2500 miles (4025 Kms)

Stay tuned for part 2 next month.

David Waterfield


Don

&

Sandra

Bike: Ozbike


Xmas in July


Due to wet w

eather and

grounds

New D

ate 18 August

2013


When: 25th/27th OCTOBER 2013

Where: STANLY RIVER ENVIROMENTAL

EDUCATION CENTRE.

3856 ESK KILCOY RD. HAZELDEAN via KILCOY

ENJOY A FUN FILLED WEEKEND OF FRIENDLY GAMES

A GREAT MEAL AND MUSIC TO DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY

ALSO RAFFLES AND UBUY AUCTIONS

REGISTRATION FEE$15.00 Including Badge.

Camping and (hard bed limited to 35)

Registration for catered meals close

Friday 11th October 2013

See Registration form for details

All Registration Enquiries: Herb Heeschen

Email: [email protected]

Phone A/H 38860482

FEATURES

Meals on Site

Hot Showers & Loo’s

Tea/Coffee/Hot Chocolate & drink station

ODYSSEY to assist the All Catering supplied by

Hazeldean Rural Fire Brigade Kilcoy Lions Club


ULYSSES REDCLIFFE BRANCH

THE REDCLIFFE ODYSSEY 2013

REGISTRATION, ACCOMMODATION & CATERING FORM

When:25th/27th October 2013

Where: STANLEY RIVER ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTRE,

3856 ESK KILCOY RD HAZELDEAN via KILCOY

Name: Membership No: ______

Address: Telephone No:

___ Email Address

Second Person Name: Membership No:

Registration

Including Badge $15.00

Accommodation

Bunkhouse per person $11.00 per night for 1 or 2 nights (35 beds)

Camping per person $9.00 per night for 1 or 2 nights

Catering

Self catering: No Cost

Friday night sausage Sizzle $2.00

Saturday Lunch BBQ at reasonable prices

Saturday night meal & Sunday breakfast catered: $30.00 p/p (60max)

All Catering is supplied by Kilcoy Lions Club

Full catering Registration closes on Friday 4th October 2013

Pre-registration for bunkhouse and camping will help with our organisation.

All Registration enquiries to Herb Heeschen

Phone 07 38860482 A/H

Email [email protected]

Please Post to:

Ulysses Odyssey

Ulysses Redcliffe Branch

P.O. Box 3134

Clontarf Mail Centre 4019

No. of People Fees

$

$

$

$

$

Fee Total $__________

Cheque or Money Order to be made

payable to

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